I'd be cool if they would provide some insight on how to make an existing website to work with their API. I always wanted to know what's the "standard" way to put a logo in the webpage. Some people uses just an IMG tag, other uses an H1 with an image replacement technique.
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#12There has to be some level of fair use or copyright involved, no? You are taking corporate images, modifying them, and then distributing their modified brand/logo potentially without their consent. If they don't like the results, they could sue you. Or at least, I feel that would be the case.
I tested a few examples, and it looks to just be parsing the page and returning the apple-touch-icon.
Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API
#13There has to be some level of fair use or copyright involved, no? You are taking corporate images, modifying them, and then distributing their modified brand/logo potentially without their consent. If they don't like the results, they could sue you. Or at least, I feel that would be the case.
Not really modifying it. But they may have branding and licensing guidelines that a service like this might not meet which would likely result in a cease and desist rather than an immediate lawsuit.
Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API
#14I'd be cool if they would provide some insight on how to make an existing website to work with their API. I always wanted to know what's the "standard" way to put a logo in the webpage. Some people uses just an IMG tag, other uses an H1 with an image replacement technique.
Looks like they're just returning the apple-touch-icon if it's available.
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#15I'd be cool if they would provide some insight on how to make an existing website to work with their API. I always wanted to know what's the "standard" way to put a logo in the webpage. Some people uses just an IMG tag, other uses an H1 with an image replacement technique.
Looks like they're just returning the apple-touch-icon if it's available.
In my case they're returning an old version of the icon.
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#17Brilliant, this is helpful for building MVP products as well!
How so?
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#18Be careful with copyright issues.
How do you make it work? Do you scrape them automatically or gather them from the brands marketing materials?
I tried different logos, and I find a few issues:
https://logo.clearbit.com/mcdonalds.com?size=256
Mcdonalds US logo background should be red (http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/newsroom/image_and_video_l... )
https://logo.clearbit.com/bk.com?size=256
The quality of that one is bad. Wikipedia's one is a .svg : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burger_King_Logo.svg
Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API
#19There has to be some level of fair use or copyright involved, no? You are taking corporate images, modifying them, and then distributing their modified brand/logo potentially without their consent. If they don't like the results, they could sue you. Or at least, I feel that would be the case.
I tested a few examples, and it looks to just be parsing the page and returning the apple-touch-icon.
That doesn't explain where https://logo.clearbit.com/debian.org comes from....
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#20Pretty cool! I think the API docs could possibly be a bit more precise, though. Perhaps something like this:
You can also pass us the following optional query parameters.
Parameter Default Description
size 128 integer Image size: Length of longest side, in pixels
format "png" string File format, either "png" or "jpg"
greyscale (not passed) boolean If this parameter is passed, image will be desaturated